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"This...how did it become like this?"

"It's the plague! Prepare to fight!"

Duanmuhuai clenched his warhammer tightly, strode out of the cave, and scanned his surroundings. Under the bright light, animals can be seen approaching everywhere, including wolves, deer, and even wild boars, rabbits and other animals that inhabit this forest, but at this moment they are all rotten and everywhere It's distortion and stench.

"Emilia, I advise you to pray for the protection of your gods. Once you are infected with the plague, even if you are a paladin, you will only die!"

"Ah, yes!"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's order, Emilia hurriedly lowered her head, clenched the long sword in her hand, knelt down and prayed in a low voice.

"The great god of justice Tyre, please grant us the power to keep away from disasters, diseases and evil, so that we can eliminate all evil and protect the lives of innocents..."

"———————!"

The next moment, a beam of light was seen descending from the sky and landed on Emilia's body. Afterwards, Emilia felt a burst of warmth begin to flow from her body. She clenched her long sword tightly and stood up. At this moment, the girl's body began to emit a faint light like a human-shaped light bulb.

"Woo...shield technique!"

Compared to Emilia, Luo Qixi is much more miserable. The evocation magician basically has no means of self-protection, but luckily Luo Qixi has long been prepared. She raised the staff in her hand, and the next moment A circular force field barrier appeared beside her like this.

"You guys have to protect me..."

Looking at the deformed animals outside, Luo Qixi's voice changed, she didn't want to be bitten by these things!

"Woooo..."

As for the black bear, right now it was shivering and hiding in the corner of the cave, not even daring to take a breath.

Duanmuhuai clenched the hammer tightly and stared at the animals around. They looked like animal version of zombies. They walked unsteadily and festered all over their bodies. This was obviously a manifestation of the plague infection. But... now is not the time to discuss these issues.

"Do it!"

With Duanmuhuai's order, the battle began.

Augis raised her hands, and the invisible silk threads spread out quickly, spreading out in the woods like a spider's web. Animals that tried to approach were entangled in silk thread, and then sliced ​​into pieces with ease.

On the other side, Emilia also started to move. Holding the long sword and shield in her hand, she rushed towards the giant deer in front of her like a thunderbolt. It was sunken like a watermelon, and the horns on the head were twisted and erected like coral, and the twitching brain could even be seen inside.

Frankly speaking, just watching such a scene is enough to make people feel sick, and Emilia also suppressed the disgust in her heart and rushed directly in front of the other party.

"———————————!"

Facing Emilia who was rushing towards him, the giant deer suddenly raised its body high, and then stepped on Emilia with both front hooves. And Emilia raised her shield, blocked it vigorously, and prevented the giant deer's trampling attack, and then swung the long sword in her right hand forward, directly piercing into the giant deer's body.

"Why?"

However, the moment the long sword pierced in, Emilia felt something was wrong. It didn't feel like piercing into the body, but it felt more like piercing into a piece of soft, rotten cheese, with almost no resistance at all. However, at this moment, something even more unexpected happened.

I saw that the giant deer's wound pierced by the long sword suddenly spread and cracked, and then several slender, worm-like tentacles came out of it, not only entangled Emilia's long sword, but even moved along the blade toward Follow her and rush over!

"Ice Cone Technique!"

At this moment, there was a loud shout from behind Emilia, and then Emilia saw a spinning ice pick passing her, hitting the giant deer's chest directly, and sending it flying out. And Emilia also took advantage of the situation to hold the long sword tightly and backed away, and at the same time glanced behind her, only to see Luo Qixi with a stiff face, standing not far behind her with a staff in hand.

"Be careful, Miss Amelia."

"Thank you, Miss Luo Qixi... Be careful!"

However, while speaking, Emilia found a rabbit quietly approaching Luo Qixi, then jumped up suddenly, opened its mouth and bit Luo Qixi——and then directly hit the transparent force field barrier superior.

"Alas-----!!"

This immediately made Luo Qixi scream out of fright, not only because of the surprise attack, but also because of the terrifying appearance of the rabbit——through the transparent force field shield, she could clearly see the rabbit in front of her. The little white rabbit that was supposed to be cute now has a ferocious face. It has three scarlet eyes on both sides of its head, staring at him viciously. Not only that, but the rabbit's open mouth is equally terrifying ——That's not the way an ordinary animal opens its mouth, it's more like a fish opening its mouth wide into a circle, and the inside is covered with sharp and sharp teeth that almost extend into its throat!

"do not come!!"

Just seeing this scene almost scared Luo Qixi out of her wits. She screamed subconsciously, and then raised her staff.

"Smash sound waves!!!"

"———————!"

The whistling sound wave burst out suddenly, rushed forward, and directly smashed the mutated rabbit into pieces, blowing it away.

At the same time, Duanmu Huai also brandished his war hammer and fought with a pack of wolves.

This pack of wolves has also mutated like other animals, but for Duanmu Huai, what should I say...

What's wrong with you guys, you have to change into tentacles, I'm familiar with this thing too!

Looking at the pack of wolves with their bloody mouths open in front of them, revealing their tongues that seemed to have mutated into tentacles, Duanmuhuai also wanted to raise his right hand and turn into tentacles, so as to meet their fellow villagers.

You see, everyone is a family of tentacles, why don't we just let us go... It's no wonder!

to die!

"boom!!"

The war hammer whizzed past, smashing a wolf's head into a meat paste, another wolf took the opportunity to pounce from the side, biting Duanmuhuai's shoulder—but unfortunately it was useless. On the contrary, Duanmuhuai grabbed the opponent's head, and then pulled it hard, tearing the wolf head off his body abruptly, then Duanmuhuai let out an angry roar, and took a step forward. It erupted at the center, turned into thunder and lightning, and spread in the woods. Animals wherever they went fell down one after another, and were directly burned into coke.

However, the creatures on the ground are obviously not the only ones that mutate.

"Gah——!"

A group of crows also flew over from the sky, their feathers had almost fallen off, and their two wings were twisted and deformed like swollen blood vessels wriggling and curling together, they opened their mouths, screaming and pounced on The ground—then consciously turned into pieces of separated flesh and blood in the air, and then fell down.

Until then, Augustus silently lowered her hands.

It is not a waste of time for everyone to deal with these mutants. After all, even if they are mutated, they are only animals after all. It is like a person infected with a virus and turned into a zombie. Most of them are still at the level of ordinary people. Zombies can learn fighting skills without a teacher. Therefore, without much effort, these aberrations were all swept away.

It's just that the expressions on Amelia's and Luo Qixi's faces are not very good-looking. Although the fighting intensity is not high, the disgusting level of those deformed bodies is probably the first time they have encountered such a disgusting monster since they were born. enemy.

"This, what exactly is this?"

Holding the staff in her arms, Luo Qixi stayed away from those monster corpses, not daring to approach them.

"Plague distortion."

Duanmuhuai came over with the hammer in his hand, and glanced at the corpses around him.

"It seems that this place has been infected."

"But...there is still some distance from Neverwinter City, right? And it seems that Neverwinter City is not so scary."

"It's far from Neverwinter, but it's close to Fortress Heim."

Facing Luo Qixi's questioning question, Duanmuhuai shrugged his shoulders, and then looked at Amelia.

"Right?"

"Yes, as long as you pass through this forest, you will find Heim Fortress on the other side of the river..."

At this moment, Emilia's expression became tense, and she agreed with Duanmu Huai's words. After all, if this mutant plague spreads in Neverwinter, it shouldn't appear so far away. And the only place where people gather around here is Fort Heim.

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go."

Originally, everyone planned to rest here for one night, and then rushed to Heim Fortress early tomorrow morning. But after this incident, no one was in the mood to sleep. The corpses of those deformed animals were burned up by Duanmu Huai, including the entire forest --- the corners of Luo Qixi and Emilia's eyes twitched, but they also knew that there was no way, after all, in order to avoid the spread of the plague, This is also necessary.

On the contrary, the black bear is a bit funny.

"I told you, don't come with us."

Looking at the black bear who was hugging his leg, with snot and tears, Duanmu Huai was speechless.

"Woooo..."

"It's useless to cry, well, hurry up and run south, as far as you can run, whether you can survive depends on your luck!"

"Woo...!"

In the end, the black bear seemed to understand Duanmuhuai's words, and turned around and ran towards the south.

As for how far it can run, that is its own problem.

"Okay, let's go."

This time, even Emilia did not object. In fact, she also wanted to rush to Heim Fortress to check the situation as soon as possible. In case Fortress Heim really falls...

With this thought in mind, Amelia's heart was also up and down along the way. I don't know how long it took. A group of people passed through the woods and came to the river. Fortress Heim in the distance——under the dark night, you can see people holding torches patrolling back and forth on the walls of the fortress, and everything seems to be very peaceful.

"call……………"

Seeing this scene, Emilia was relieved.

"Great, Mr. Duanmu, it seems that everything in Fort Helm is normal."

"hehe."

Facing Amelia's words, Duanmuhuai just chuckled and didn't speak.

Soon, everyone crossed the bridge and crossed the river, and arrived in front of Fortress Heim—then a voice came.

"Stop, who are you, what are you doing here at Fort Helm?"

Hearing the other party's inquiry, Emilia was even more determined, stepped forward hastily, and answered.

"We are the investigation team from Neverwinter. We have discovered the spread of the plague in the nearby woods. We are here to report!"

"What? Is there such a thing?"

Facing Emilia's answer, the patrolling soldiers were also taken aback.

"I'll report to the commander immediately, please wait a moment!"

After saying this, the soldier hurriedly turned and left, while a group of people stood at the door.

"call……………"

At this moment, Amelia was completely relieved, and turned to look at Duanmuhuai.

"Mr. Duanmu, look, Fort Heim is normal, right? There's nothing wrong with it...uh...Mr. Duanmu, what are you doing?"

However, before Emilia finished speaking, she saw Duanmu Huai striding towards the gate of the fortress, grabbed the hammer, and then...

"Inquisition! Open the door!"

Accompanied by the roar, Duanmuhuai rushed forward, smashing open the closed gate of Fort Heim! !